{"616585":{"#nid":"616585","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Astronaut Mae Jemison to Deliver MLK Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMae Jemison, an engineer, physician, and NASA astronaut, will be the keynote speaker for Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s 2019 MLK Lecture on Tuesday, January 22, at 7 p.m. at the Ferst Center for the Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJemison made history in 1992 when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor, becoming the first African-American woman to travel in space. After earning a medical degree from Cornell Medical College in 1981, she had a brief medical practice before serving in the Peace Corps from 1985 until 1987 when NASA selected her to join their Astronaut Corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to found her own company, the Jemison Group, which researches, markets, and develops science and technology for daily life. In 1999, she founded BioSentient Corporation and has been working to develop a portable device that allows mobile monitoring of the involuntary nervous system. In 2012, she made the winning bid for the DARPA 100-Year Starship project through the Dorothy Jemison Foundation for Excellence. She has appeared on television several times, including an appearance in an episode of \u003Cem\u003EStar Trek: The Next Generation. \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFree MLK Lecture tickets for students are available at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gatech.universitytickets.com\/w\/default.aspx\u0022\u003Egatech.universitytickets.com\/w\/default.aspx\u003C\/a\u003E. Registration for faculty, staff, and community members has reached maximum capacity due to limited seating and a high level of interest. To sign up for the waitlist, please click \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/2019-mlk-lecture-waitlist\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E. You will be contacted if additional tickets become available.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more on Tech\u0026rsquo;s MLK celebration events, see:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/mlk-celebration-events\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ediversity.gatech.edu\/mlk-celebration-events\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Astronaut Mae Jemison will be the keynote speaker for Georgia Tech\u2019s 2019 MLK Lecture on Tuesday, January 22, at 7 p.m. at the Ferst Center for the Arts."}],"uid":"27713","created_gmt":"2019-01-17 20:39:32","changed_gmt":"2019-01-17 20:52:31","author":"Victor Rogers","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616586":{"id":"616586","type":"image","title":"Mae Jemison","body":null,"created":"1547758142","gmt_created":"2019-01-17 20:49:02","changed":"1547758174","gmt_changed":"2019-01-17 20:49:34","alt":"Mae Jemison, NASA astronaut","file":{"fid":"234681","name":"Mae Jemison.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mae%20Jemison.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Mae%20Jemison.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":51326,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Mae%20Jemison.jpg?itok=HYEDAJJW"}}},"media_ids":["616586"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/diversity.gatech.edu\/mlk-celebration-events","title":"MLK Celebration Events"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"10810","name":"MLK"},{"id":"2437","name":"lecture"},{"id":"179751","name":"mae jemison"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"},{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"},{"id":"71901","name":"Society and Culture"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EVictor Rogers\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["victor.rogers@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}